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Hello_Hurricane t1_j62sozh wrote

Reply to comment by Financial_Donut_64 in How life with UBI could look like by Financial_Donut_64

Perhaps we're on the cusp of the next great intellectual age! That or we're all about to be enslaved.

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Financial_Donut_64 OP t1_j62ui29 wrote

The search for meaning could very well lead to a new intellectual age. I just hope that we don’t collectively fall into a depression as society and if yes we will need sth (be it philosophy, science, religion, …) to guide us through that time imo.

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Hello_Hurricane t1_j62usaj wrote

I think, for a time, especially with any country that enacts UBI, a vast majority of the population will become enormously depressed as they try to find things in their life of actual meaning or value, instead of attributing those things to work. I imagine that will eventually pass, but I can see suicide rates skyrocketing during that time. I know far too many people whose only self-perceived value comes from the work they do. Hell, my own father thinks his purpose in life is to work and eventually die on the job. I hate to think what UBI would do to him.

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